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Building and Fire Code Adoption Process

Overview

Notice:

The 2018 Connecticut State Building Code, 2018 Connecticut State Fire Safety Code and 2018 Connecticut State Fire Prevention Code came into effect on October 1, 2018 and are available for download. The CT versions of ICC's 2015 International Building Code, 2015 International Residential Code and 2015 International Fire Code are available from the ICC web site.

The 2018 Connecticut State Building Code applies to projects with permit applications filed from October 1, 2018.

Technical review of these codes was conducted by the Committee’s Codes Amendment Subcommittee (CAS) along with DAS staff. Workgroups made up of CAS members and DAS staff, were established to review specific portions of the proposed codes for changes from the current code and to update the current amendment documents. Each of these workgroups provided a report of their review, identified issues that required additional discussion or research, and presented their amendment document changes. The schedule of these reports can be found in the CAS meeting schedule under "what's next".

This review began January 2017 and was completed with the Codes and Standards Committee’s approval for DAS to move both codes the legislative approval process at its November 8, 2017 meeting. The agency then accepted comments from the public (see below) for a period of forty-five (45) days, beginning January 2, 2018 through the close of business February 16, 2018.

The revised draft codes were submitted to the Legislative Regulation Review Committee on May 2, 2018. At the Committee’s May 24th
meeting all three codes were rejected without prejudice, based on the
recommendation of the Legislative Commissioners Office (LCO) reports.
Responses to comments in these reports and revised codes were submitted to
the Committee on June 21, 2018 for reconsideration and were approved on July 24, 2018.

Code Change Proposals:

Code Change Proposals for development of the 2018 codes were received during an open period from January 1, 2017 through March 31, 2017, and were reviewed by the Codes Amendment Subcommittee and its workgroups.

The following document contains the proposals received during the open period:

Public Comments and Responses:

The draft Building, Fire Safety and Fire Prevention Codes were published for public comment on January 2, 2018. A public hearing was held on January 24, 2018. Comments were accepted through February 16, 2018. Here are all the comments received in tabulated format: